FP TrendsJuly 04, 2020 15:21:46 IST Astronomers have observed celestial fireworks in a star cluster called G286.21 + 0.17. The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile teamed up with the Hubble Space Telescope to create a mosaic of the star cluster, which appeared as ‘cosmic …
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